Monday, February 28, 2011

Regularly Scheduled Broadcast

Two missing E.E. posts in a row, and something like four in a row (at least) of Sunday Sabbath Poetry. It'll all be returning soon, but hearing from programs and finishing the first draft of my thesis and simultaneous midterm papers have crowded them out for a bit. Spring Break begins in a week; by then everything should be back on schedule.

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Is EE still planning on making a comeback? I just finished it (which means I still have 200 pages of Codas to read) and would be interested in maybe helping it get going again. That said I do not have the writing or theology skills other contributors might have, I should be able to give a half good reflection on the chapter.

Mi Yodea?

Mi yodea? is the question the King of Nineveh asks in Jonah 3:9: "Who knows?" Jonah announces the impending destruction of Nineveh, but the King calls his people to repentance, resting his hope on the open possibility that God may be moved to mercy and forgiveness. And, as it happens, God is.

So that is the overarching question for us as we practice theology: Who knows? Who knows what God is doing, or what God has in store? The God revealed in Israel and in Jesus of Nazareth is a God of surprises, one who is doing a new thing. Such a God we will find at work in the most unlikely of places; may we, then, be fellow explorers and sojourners on the way.

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